Wikipedia:Meetup/Toronto/RULA

Ryerson University Library & Archives will host a meetup on Wednesday 22nd of August from 12-5 pm. We will be focusing on creating and improving articles on Indigenous women.

Event description

This event is part of a project to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of Indigenous women in Canada. We are also participating in this month's Wikiproject: Women in Red campaign.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon. We will have a library resources and a list of suggested articles will be on hand.

Event details

• Host: Ryerson University Library, 350 Victoria Street
• Date: 08.22.2018
• Time: 12:00-5:00pm
• Cost: Free
• What to bring: Computer stations will be available for participants but you can bring a laptop or tablet if you are more comfortable using your own equipment.
• Participants: Open to all!

Location and transportation

The meetup will be held in the ILC lab on the main floor of the Ryerson University Library.

Ryerson Library is located at the corner of Gould and Victoria Streets and can be accessed by the TTC Dundas subway stop.

Let us know if you're coming!

If possible, please sign up for a Wikipedia account ahead of time. See this page for information on how to create an account.

Sign up below:

• Smallison (talk) 16:19, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• Morinjam (talk) 22:38, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

• grovertrina (talk) 07:28, 9 July 2024 UTC [refresh]

• pomathorn (talk) 07:28, 9 July 2024 UTC [refresh]

• Dgranfield (talk)

• De.wong91 (talk)

• Citybrarian (talk) 01:00, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Editing tools and tips

• Use a WIR template on the talk page of your article {{WIR 2018}}
• WIR 10 simple rules for writing biographies of women.

Articles to create

Indigenous midwives

There are few articles about FNMI midwives in Wikipedia

• Rachel Dennis, Nipissing First Nation midwife
• Carol Couchie, Nipissing First Nation midwife
• Heather Heinrichs, Métis midwife
• Claire Dion-Fletcher, Indigenous Registered (Potawatomi-Lenape) midwife
• Ellen Blais, Indigenous midwife, Oneida Nation of the Thames, Turtle Clan
• Cheryllee Bourgeois Indigenous midwife
• Sara Wolfe Indigenous Midwife, Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto

Archivists, Librarians, and Academics

• Allison Boucher Krebs
• Jane Mt. Pleasant
• Sheila Cote-Meek

Articles to update

• Connie Fife, Cree Poet
• Alanis Obomsawin, Abenaki Filmmaker